switchboard

Example Sentences

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The calls came in to a central operator sitting at a switchboard at the phone company downtown.

From Literature

A 20-minute call to the switchboard led to a report back from the NHS trust's communications manager to Operation Grange, the British investigation into the disappearance.

From BBC

I’m used to being a switchboard of sorts — as a journalist, inevitably, word travels to and through me.

From Los Angeles Times

Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court's genuine automated switchboard message - which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.

From BBC

The switchboard at the Lime Grove studios was jammed with viewers ringing in to find out more, and it gave the BBC the nudge to set up the Natural History Unit in Bristol in 1957.

From BBC